Archive for March, 2010

Socket server in PHP

Recently I had to develop a chat room system very quickly. I absolutely wanted to use my favorite language: PHP. So I had to figure out how do sockets work in PHP, and how to give PHP a daemon behavior (read: Give PHP a daemon behavior). I found many resources on the Internet, more or less exact, m ...

Give PHP a daemon behavior

Well, I fully admit PHP is not the best language to write daemons, because of all the performance issues we all know, and infinite loops are not the most beautiful thing you can see in a procedural script. However, it may happen that for a reason X or Y, you want to use PHP to write daemons (it has ...

Welcome here

Hi, my name’s Cyril and you’re on my new blog, that won’t talk about me exclusively like the title suggests, but mostly about what I do: web development, system administration, eBusiness, eMarketing… This is not the first time I make a blog, but it’s the first time I r ...